If you click for the enlarged version you can see it’s a “Sportsmen for Santorum” sign. HAHAHAHA! Big brave pansy!
McDonald’s. Fast food. Fast Jobs. 50,000 served in one day.
Low wage dead end jobs, serving up low cost death causing food. An American win win.
Not to simplify things to basics, but this graph shows the Unemployment rate, red being G. W. Bush, and the blue signifying Obama’s time in office. I think this more than indicates a movement in the right direction.
Here is the speech that our now illustrious president gave as a Freshman Senator during the 2006 debt limit increase debate:
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
Fast forward to 2011 now that the “community organizer” is POTUS.
Failure by Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit “could plunge the world economy back into recession,” President Barack Obama declared Friday, and he acknowledged that he must compromise on spending with Republicans who control the House to avoid such a crisis.
So this brings up two possible scenarios, neither of which give me any confidence in the “Most Powerful Man in the World.”
If I ran my business like the Federal government my doors would have been shuttered long ago. The bottom line is this: If you don’t have the money in the account YOU CANNOT SPEND IT!!!!!!! Tough choices must be made and that is what the majority of Americans elected this man to do.
Once again, our democracy has failed us.
I have always been sort of Love/Hate with Obama. Today I saw an article that made me fall in love with him all over again. Apparently they (asshole media) left the MIC on after one of his speeches and Obama was so frustrated he was doing a little off the cuff riffing on the current budget situation. Apparently he was really annoyed with asshole Republican Paul Ryan claiming that he is the new “American Accountant”. Obama’s response was COMPLETELY ON POINT (and new and improved… now with the up till now MISSING Democratic Balls..)
“When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he’s just being America’s accountant … This is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill–but wasn’t paid for,” Obama reportedly said.
This made me fall in love with Obama all over again because Paul Ryan is a total dick head.
To read the whole article that pissed me off and made me fall in love with Obama again, click here.
Thank God! Obama woke up today, reached down his underwear and found his balls. Let’s hope Harry Reid does the same!
As for the current looming government shutdown and the reasons behind it, I only have this to say:
Yes. Lets abort this fetus. You want a balanced budget? Start making corporations pay their fair share. Tax companies that ship their job overseas at a higher rate. If you want to Lobby Congress, then its a 50% flat tax to run your business. 501-C3’s can no longer be used to raise political funds. Make the DOD its own free standing entity (like the Post Office) along with charging other countries who use our military for “freedom” a “Freedom Fee.” Any church or non-profit group that wants to persuade its members on how OUR country is governed and its laws on ALL of its people, lose their non taxable status and are taxed at the new Lobbyist rate. Outlaw former congressmen, senators, vice presidents, etc from being able to work for defense contractors. Make serving on Congress or the Senate a volunteer position with no pay and no benefits.
Wow. I bet I’ve made this country money, and saved more money then the good congressman Mr. Ryan at a Planned Parenthood fund raiser and I haven’t even done a thing~how totally American of me!
So, maybe you have all read about the big corporate entities this past week that lost security over their customer’s email address lists?
Today I woke up to emails from Chase and Marriott both saying “we’re sorry…”
I am so sick and tired of rich corporate entities just saying “we’re sorry”. In the game of business in America, when you fuck up this much, you should pay a price, not just send out a mass email saying “we’re sorry”. What happened to the card in monopoly that said, “Bank error in your favor, collect $200.”
The way I see it, these corporate entities that screw up like this have a choice:
1. Take a HUGE FINE from the federal government (thus reducing our nation debt – it would be a win/win for both republicans and democrats).
2. Give everyone a reduction in fees (skip a car payment or a free room at a marriott for a night).
I replied to Chase and Marriott today with an email that sounds like this.
STOP LYING LIKE EVERY OTHER CORPORATION IN AMERICA!!!
If you “take my privacy very seriously” you would pay me for your lack of attention and care or the federal government would fine you for carelessly collecting such information and not maintaining proper security around it. I would lose my job if I let this happened.
What penalty is Chase or any other big corporation paying for violating the trust of innocent customers?
NONE!
This is what is wrong with America! You big corporations are not held accountable to your customers and you will not pay or compensate your customers for your carelessness.
I will definitely be blogging about this. SHAME ON CHASE AND ANY OTHER COMPANY WHO THINKS A “WHOOPS WE’RE SORRY” EMAIL CAN COMPENSATE FOR THIS! I am very disappointed.
It’s funny after all the DAILY harassment this company has given me for being late on a car payment and consumers are just supposed to shrug off this gross violation of privacy makes me sick!
You should be fined HEAVILY!
I will be taking to the internet on every blog I can find and making sure that NOBODY does business with you because you think you can fix violations of trust with a simple “whoops we’re sorry” email.
SHAME ON THIS COMPANY!